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| Author: | Champarnaud, L. Ginsburgh, V. Michel, P. |
| Title: | Can public arts education replace arts subsidization? |
| Journal: | Journal of Cultural Economics
2008 : VOL. 32:2, p. 109-126 |
| Index terms: | arts consumption young people education subsidies models France |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Most governments subsidize the arts in some manner. Public education (here as: p-educ.) may seem to be an action which could lead, in the long run, to possible reductions of subsidies. According to surveys, it is shown that those who have been exposed to the arts when young participate more when adult. However, the "non-market" transmission from parents to children generates an external effect to be taken into account to reach first-best situations. An overlapping generations model is developed in which young consumers are exposed to both p-educ. toward the arts and to non-altruistic transmission of such a taste from their parents. It is shown that the first-best can be reached only if there is both p-educ. in culture and subsidization of arts consumption. Therefore, education cannot be considered as a substitute for subsidies to arts consumption. However, as often in European countries, the government intervention is usually below the first-best level. Based on French data, it is shown that it is preferable to subsidize education, while consumption, particularly the older generations, ought to be taxed rather than subsidized. |
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